GLOBALGAP in the COVID-19 Epidemic Process

Abstract

The COVID-19 epidemic has affected the agriculture and food sector and many other sectors in the world and our country and forced countries to take measures on food safety. As a result of the effects of the COVID-19 epidemic on the world food sector, the need for traceable, sustainable, and reliable food has gradually increased. The establishment, which emerged as Good Agricultural Practice in Europe and the United States in the 1990s and developed the GLOBALGAP system over the years, is used by many producers in 130 countries for access to reliable food. GLOBALGAP also regulates business enterprise standards structured to create supply against the increasing demand for safe food by consumers. With certified production with common standards, it reaches more and more people in the global market, including our country, and its market share is increasing accordingly. While COVID-19 increased the demand for food security, it also caused significant problems in the food supply. Therefore, new applications have been put into operation within the scope of GLOBALGAP. In this article, the certification system of GLOBALGAP, which provides a common international standard from production to consumption in the food industry, and especially its current data in the COVID-19 epidemic process, its sub-scopes and innovations are presented.

Keywords

• covid-19
• food security
• globalgap
• sustainability
• agricultural production